Rememberance of Fragrant Past - 4

I remember going to the Max Fac tor Museum in Los Angeles and being struck by an aroma I did not know. When I say 'struck', I mean that inhaling it caused a profound reaction in my solar plexus. This aroma and I have a history which I have yet to discover. It conjured up images of which I have no conscious memory of a time before my birth.

One day I'll return to that museum with my essential-oil kit and attempt to replicate the aroma. Then, with the help of someone to guide me through, I'll hopefully understand what significance it has to me.

If you have found while undergoing body-work that you have memories, or any other experience which is different to normal, and there is an aroma attached to it which corresponds with an essential oil, take a sample of that next time you go.

Inhale the aroma before the session begins and ask the therapist to work on the same place that caused the memory or other reaction last time.

Be very open with the therapist about this - you should not keep anything to yourself. It is important to verbalize and discuss any such experiences. Aside from the fact that you need to bring them into the open so they can be released, if any event involved physical hurt, the energetic emotional reaction can be stored in the body tissue and organs and your therapist will want to know about it.

Reactions to particular aromas are highly individualistic. One person may have no reaction at all, while another may find a far-memory is revealed. Aromas are like pigments and that colour our experiences of life and each painting is unique. There have now been so many books, articles and TV programmes about past-life experiences, they can hardly be denied. The question is, 'What are they?' In some cases, they are undoubtedly an illusion - some-one has read something, overheard something, or seen something which they later adopt as their own experience.

In most cases these are innocent mistakes, caused by being half asleep, in a daydream, or some mental state in which reality and fantasy become mixed up. Children may be particularly prone to this. If everything we ever see, smell and hear is retained in our vast memory vault, who can say that a bay didn't watch a TV programme in say, 1960, and recalled it as a 'past life' in 2000? Some 'past lives are 'simply' genetic memory, an invisible in heritance we carry deep within.

However, in many cases, there is absolutely no possibility of this because the ancestors and the date and location of the recalled event don't match up. This is especially so, when the whereabouts of ancestors can be easily confirmed. Those who work in this field are familiar with the options, and are also familiar with the profound release that can come from experiencing key moments in past or far-lives - and in the present life - and see that major changes in behaviour and life-direction can result.

When a person  is free from encumbering emotions of past lives or of other lives encountered along the spirit's journey - they soar like a bird into a happier future. This release can be physical, and chronic pains and ailments are sometimes said to lessen; it can be behavioural, and old ways of relating change for the better, and it can be spiritual, as people find their own true selves. In a sense it doesn't matter whether the techniques used access the personal subconscious, the superconscious or the universal consciousness.

What is clear is that which we seek consciously or unconsciously, and need to evolve. In this, aroma can play a transformational role.

Reference: The Fragrant Heavens: Valerie Ann Worwood.